Tag Archives: Photoshop

Love Birds Valentine Vector Image with Inkscape

This image is called Love Birds, and it is, of course, in honour of Valentine’s Day. I’m focusing on producing images in Inkscape right now. Since the death of my XP laptop and my consequent inability to use my new Bamboo graphics tablet – Linux just doesn’t like it (even my brand spanking new Mandriva [...]

Digital Painting a cover illustration with bleed for my CreativeSpace book, in Photoshop, Tutorial stage 2

Last time we saw this image it looked like this. It’s the very first design sketch with only the most important elements, placed in the guide psd provided by CreateSpace, and a few colours. I have put each element on a separate layer. The cat’s on one layer and the sky on another, and I’m [...]

Change Inkscape’s interface language the easy way thanks to Rarst.net, and a very nice Photoshop brush for graphics tablets.

Photoshop can make some very nice natural looking and intuitive marks with a graphics tablet – I’m using the “Bamboo Pen”, which is the cheapest available in my parts. It does require some tinkering and I was having a hard time of it, when a commenter on the post containing my first graphics tablet image [...]

Sketching in Photoshop with my new Bamboo tablet, and some Scifi Comic Books

The word this week on Illustration Friday was music, and of course I wanted to do a quick sketch with music, but also with my usual sci fi elements. This time I included a robot playing the trumpet in the sketch. The sketch was done with my new “Bamboo Pen” graphic tablet, and it makes [...]

Photoshop is making me fat so I’m going to go GIMP.

Whenever I switch Photoshop on and get that ugly grey screen followed by the splash screen, I know I’m going to be sitting and staring at it for a long time. I sit staring at the credits and I feel I actually know Thomas Knoll and the rest of the development team because I’ve been [...]

Germs and a Telegraphics free plugin for Photoshop

  This week’s word on Illustration Friday is Germs. It’s great to have a nice rancid word like this so I can just let rip with my illustration. Again after sketching my germ and adding colour with Photoshop I’m doing my 2D/3D illustration thing, but I’m having a problem with an unwanted white outline appearing [...]

A funny and “strong” image for illustration Friday, the art challenge site

This weeks word on Illustration Friday is strong, and I toyed with the idea of sketching some muscle bulging super hero, or barbarian from a role-playing game, but then I had another idea. Enjoy. I’ve given this cute children’s book image its own page, pride of place, in the gallery of all the best illustrations [...]

Starhound spaceship illustration for SF RPGs, after a little more work.

I just checked my Google analytics results for the month, and I discovered that by far the largest number of visitors to my  site come from the Google Images search engine. For this month alone Google images has sent me hundreds of visitors. Well it seems what I have to do is keep posting images, [...]

My 3D robot illustration for Traveller is starting to look good

After a couple of hours more work on my 3D droid illustration for my science fiction role-playing game setting, for Traveller, I think I’ve made a breakthrough. The image of the robot is starting to look more like a finished illustration, and less like a work in progress. I have used Photoshop to put a [...]

Photo safari, on the hunt for futuristic looking backgrounds for my 3D models of robots and spaceships.

  I just got back from Gasometer, a district of Vienna, where there is a treasure trove of empty, futuristic looking buildings. Thanks to the international financial crisis these buildings are almost completely deserted, which makes getting empty shots to go behind my 3D role-playing game art all too easy, and adds to the feeling [...]